Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Let me be honest: I was skeptical going into this book. I've been reading dietary advice books since I was very young due to the unfortunate and all-too-common combination of PCOS and an eating disorder that informed my adolescent years. I expected this to be another scolding of a book (the type that says eating any refined carbohydrate ever might as well be sentencing yourself to an early deathbed or that claims eating enough blueberries will cure your PTSD, depression, anxiety and probably cancer, too).

This was not this sort of book. This was an informative read that took legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific studies and broke them down into the language of the common man (sometimes to the point of over-simplification, but there's only so much you can ask for). It doesn't demand more of you than you can give and certainly doesn't expect perfection. Instead, this book offers sound, scientifically grounded advice about the best ways to structure your meals and meal plans in order to flatten the curve (too soon for a little bit of covid humor?) of your glucose spikes. Her advice comes only after the first third of the book breaks down how and why our bodies crave and react to glucose, fructose and sucrose—and come alongside both studies and data about why her tips work and personal success stories. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to gain a greater insight into their personal health without hearing any extremist calls to radically cut out whole food groups or otherwise adopt unsustainable lifestyle practices.